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Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or "third sight," is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating an alternate philosophical "worldsense" linking those of African descent across space and time.Contesting popular discourses about what constitutes culture and maintaining that neglected strains in negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the connections between folk practices, cultural memory, and collective consciousness, John examines the diasporic principles in the work of the negritude writers Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, and Leopold Senghor. She traces the manifestations and reworkings of their ideas in Afro-Caribbean writing from the eastern and French Caribbean, as well as the Caribbean diaspora in the United States. The authors she discusses include Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, and Edouard Glissant, among others. John argues that by incorporating what she calls folk groundings-such as poems, folktales, proverbs, and songs-into their work, Afro-Caribbean writers invoke a psychospiritual consciousness which combines old and new strategies for addressing the ongoing postcolonial struggle.

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	31 octobre 2003
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822385097
Langue	English

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CLE A RWOR DA NDT HI R DS I GHT

N E WA M E R I C A N I S T S

A Series Edited by Donald E. Pease

Catherine A. John

CLEAR

WORD

AND

THIRD

SIGHT

Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in

African Caribbean Writing

D U K EU N I V E R S I T YP R E S S2003Durham and London

∫2003 Duke University Press

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John, Catherine A.

Clear word

and third sight : folk groundings and diasporic consciousness in African Caribbean

writing / Catherine A. John.

ical references and index.

p. cm. — (New Americanists)

Includes bibliograph-

isbn(cloth : alk. paper) — 0-8223-3232-9 isbn

0-8223-3222-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Caribbean literature (English)—Black authors—

History and criticism. 2. Caribbean literature (French)—Black authors—History and

criticism. 3. Caribbean literature (English)—African inﬂuences. 4. Caribbean litera-

ture (French)—African inﬂuences. 5. African literature—Appreciation—Caribbean

Area. 6. Folklore and literature—Caribbean Area. 7. Caribbean Area—Intellectual life.

8. Folklore—Caribbean Area. 9. Folklore in literature. 10. Blacks in literature. I. Title.

II. Series.

pr9205.05.j64 2003

810.9%8960729—dc21

2003010579

FT HEAF R I CANS LAV ET RADE, O S OMEOFT HEE L DE R SI NCUB AS AYT HAT

OURB E I NGB R OUGHTHE R EWA SNECE S S ARY

F ORT HEDEV E LOPME NTOFWE S T E R NC I V I LI Z AT I ON.

OURMUS I C,OURAGR I CULT UR E,OURDA NC E,

OURLA NGUAGE,ANDCULT URALE XPR E S S I ON.

MAYT HEB LOODOFT HEANCE S TOR S

R ECLAI MUS.

1 2

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s

Contents

Introduction: Alternate Consciousness in the Diaspora

Paris in 1956: Negritude and Cultural Discourse

Colonial Legacies, Gender Identity, and Black Female Writing in the Diaspora 43

Negritude and Negativity: Alienation and ‘‘Voice’’ in Eastern Caribbean Literature 74

Diaspora Philosophy, French Caribbean Literature, and Simone Schwarz-Bart’sPluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle114

The Spoken Word and Spirit Consciousness: Audre Lorde and Paule Marshall’s Diasporic Voice 158

a f t e r w o r d203 n o t e s211 b i b l i o g r a p h y227 i n d e x237

Acknowledgments

his book grew out of my 1997 dissertation, entitled ‘‘The Haunt-T ing Past and the Production of Racial Subjects: Contemporary Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing.’’ I would like to thank all those who helped to make both the original project and the current one possible. First and foremost I would like to thank my parents, for their emotional and ﬁnancial support in graduate school and beyond, and to thank my sister, Julia ‘‘Spratty’’ John, for all the ‘‘groundings.’’ Immense thanks to my Duke editor, Reynolds Smith, and Sharon Torian, editorial assistant. Thanks to my research assistant, Yaisa Guillory, who came through in the eleventh hour, making the impos-sible seem possible. Thanks also to my original dissertation faculty and graduate student colleagues back in Santa Cruz—Akasha Gloria Hull, Kristin Ross, James Cli√ord, Michael Cowan, Susan Gilman, Martha Bonilla, Carla Scott, Suran Thrift, Kamari Clarke, Jon Hunt, Judith Haas, Gordon Bigelow, and Clarence Robertson—and to some of the friends in California who helped to keep me sane by providing a haven outside of academia: Shawn Fong, Kelvin Burton, Howard, Millie and Lisa Francis, Fitima Morris, Melinda Palacio, and Steve Yao, as well as Warren and Sharon Bailey. I am grateful also to the Santa Barbara crew at the Department and Center for Black Studies for a year’s worth of dissertation fellowship and intellectual engagement. Those folks include Charles Long, Marti Adams, Houston Roberson, Gerard Pigeon, Claudine Michel, Joanne Madison, Avery Gordon, Crystal Gri≈ths, Stephanie Han, and Francoise Cromer. I would like to thank various friends and scholars whose conversations helped to shape my ideas: Erna Brodber, Rupert Lewis, Paget Henry, Carole Boyce Davies, Michael West, Sylvia Wynter, Nadie Edwards, Belinda

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